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Wednesday, 2 December 2015

Israeli Jews- the invisible victims of terror.

Facts;

The invisible victims of terror – Israeli Jews.

The perpetrators of a Jewish genocide – Palestinian Arabs.

The cause of their terror – to destroy Israel and kill Jews
in the name of Palestinian liberation and Jihad.

How do we prove these facts? As follows;

Mahmoud Abbas, on official Palestinian TV on September 16,
infamously incited Palestinian Arabs with a call to spill blood.

“We won’t allow Jews with their ‘filthy feet’ to ‘defile our
holy Al-Aqsa Mosque.’ We bless every drop of blood that has been spilled for
Jerusalem, which is clean pure blood for Allah, Allah willing. Every martyr
will reach Paradise, and everyone wounded will be rewarded by Allah.”

This then is the Palestinian Authority president that hides
behind a secular exterior.

His call was taken up by one of the main preachers in the
Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Khaled al-Mugrabi who, in a sermon, declared, “The
Children of Israel will all be exterminated. The Anti-Christ will be killed,
and the Muslims will live in comfort for a long time.”

Sheikh Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, appointed by Abbas as the
mufti of Jerusalem and the Muslim cleric supervising the Temple Mount,
repeatedly claims that there was never a Jewish temple atop the Temple Mount,
and Mahmoud al-Habbash, Abbas’s advisor on all things Islamic called Jews “evil”
and Israel “a Satanic project.”
He also called Jesus a “Palestinian,” yet another attempt to
remove any Jewish connection to Jerusalem and the land.

The Palestinian National Charter states in Article 9 that, “Armed
struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine. Thus it is the overall strategy
not merely a tactical phase,” while Article 19 clearly states that “The
partition of Palestine and the founding of Israel are entirely illegal.”

How does the Jewish state make peace with an entity that is
so completely drenched in Jew hatred to the point of calling for genocide?

Yet this is ignored by a disinterested world, disinterested
that it when it comes to protecting the only liberal democracy in a region, a
region whose hate spills over onto European shores.

While the world painted the colors of the French tricolor on
their Facebook pages, Israelis were being killed on an almost daily basis at
the hands of Palestinian Arabs. No blue
and white face-overs on Facebook profiles in memory of our dead.

It was startling to see how many Facebook Jews identified
with the Parisian outrages but failed to stand publicly with the murdered Jews
of Israel.

It seems the overpowering phony Palestinian narrative has
cowed even Jews into silence.

This narrative not only emanates from Palestinian and BDS
propaganda sources. It resounds in media headlines that scrub Jewish dead while
refusing to name Palestinian Arabs as the murdering terrorists. Headlines, such
as this of the BBC, seem to deliberately alter facts to hide the truth.

“Palestinian shot dead as Jerusalem attack kills two.”

This BBC World News headline is callously typical of a media
cover-up of Palestinian crimes.

No one would know from reading this news report that the
Palestinian shot dead was an Arab attacker that targeted Jews. Nor would they
know that the two killed were his Jewish victims. Why the transliteration?

Or Sky News coverage that “Palestinians shot dead in
alleged knife attacks” makes it read that Palestinians were victims of a
shooting when, in fact, they were the attacking terrorists hunting for Jews to
kill and that the knife attacks carried out by Palestinian Arabs were far from “alleged”
but very real, leaving Israeli Jews bleeding and hospitalized.

In every case, editors twist themselves into pretzels to
avoid telling the truth.

They have an undeniable agenda to present Palestinian Arabs
as victims, a right that cannot be granted to Israeli Jews even as they are
being attacked, wounded and killed by murderous Palestinian Arabs. It spoils
these editors permanent story line. Every story must be portrayed to represent
the best interests of the Palestinians, and present the worst of those pesky
Israelis.

The deliberate protection of the ugly face of violent Palestine
ends up neutralizing the story, leaving no room for sympathy for Israeli
victims.

When it happens regularly you know there is an editorial
issue at work here.

To prove this point let’s reverse roles.

Can you imagine the global reaction if Arabs had been
stabbed, mowed down in vehicular attacks, shot, or injured and killed by rock-throwing
Jewish Israelis?

Can there be any doubt it would not have made headline news
around the world, especially if it were occurring daily, as it is to Jews in
Israel?

Does anyone think that the noise level of reaction against
Israel would not have been deafening?

Is there any denial that international bodies would have been
calling for criminal investigations and punishing condemnations of Israel,
rather than the individual perpetrators?

Would anyone attempt to justify the resultant Arab deaths and
injuries as an excusable reaction to ongoing violence against a fearful
population?

Of course not! But
when it happens the other way round, it’s nothing more than a yawn. Not worth
spilling editorial ink.

So why the double standard? Why hasn’t the media, the
international diplomatic community, taken the Palestinian Authority and Mahmoud
Abbas to task for the clear and public incitement to violence that is anchored
in blatant anti-Semitism?

Incitement to genocide is an international crime. Why is this
not being called out?

Tolerating a Palestinian Authority that calls for a world
without Israel as they murder Jews is intolerable, particularly when it is
practiced by liberal democratic countries.

The statements made by Western leaders have been
heinous. I use that word deliberately.

American Vice President, Joe Biden, described as “heinous”
terrorist attacks, naming Paris, Beirut, Iraq and Nigeria. He forgot to mention
Israeli terror victims. No doubt he will call it a slip of the tongue. He was not alone.

It is particularly galling when Western policy-makers attempt
to twist an emboldened Palestinian terror campaign that leaves too many Israeli
Jews dead and injured into a false narrative of Palestinian “despair”
and, further, link it to Islamic attacks in Paris as did the inexcusable
Swedish Foreign Minister and the leader of the Dutch Socialist Party. Or US
Secretary of State, John Kerry, who blamed settlements for rampant
Palestinian killers, responding to the incitement of their Palestinian and
Islamic leaders to kill Jews.

This dangerous Western thinking and rhetoric is wrong. It has
to end!

It is time for misguided influence and opinion makers to own
up to the truth.

The truth is that Israeli Jews are being targeted and killed
for being Israeli Jews.

The truth is a Palestinian ambition not to live in peace
alongside Israel but to destroy Israel and kill Jews.

The truth is that the false language expressed by diplomats
and the Western media makes them complicit in encouraging further Palestinian violence
against Israeli Jews and a rejection of Israel’s right to exist.

The truth is they are sanitizing anti-Semitic incitement and
attacks.

The truth is they are emboldening a Palestinian leadership
who sees Western intellectuals mouthing their narrative and closing their eyes
to their crimes.

As long as Israeli Jews remain the invisible victims of
terror, victims of an invisible malevolent Palestinian agenda, do not expect
Israelis to offer gestures or concessions for peace.

We, the invisible victims and targets of Palestinian terror,
are too busy trying to stay alive.

Barry Shaw is the Senior Associate for Public Diplomacy at
the Israeli Institute for Strategic Studies. He is also the author of ‘Fighting
Hamas, BDS and Anti-Semitism.’

Barry Shaw was the founder of the Netanya Terror Victims
Organization when Palestinians targeted his hometown for suicide attacks,
car-bombing and shootings that killed over 50 and injured hundreds.